At the Tenth Annual National Conference on Private Property RIghts, held by the Property Rights Foundation of America in Oct. 2006, the closing address was by Lawrence A. Kogan of ITSSD, on "U.S. Private Property Rights Under International Assault."

It is a good piece, weaving together consideration of issues of physical and intellectual property, and of domestic and foreign affairs. Sample:

I am very troubled by the extent and seriousness of the current campaign that left-leaning foreign governments, activists and academics are waging against the American free market, private property and science and economics-based regulatory systems. I am even more offended, however, that many opponent-critics come from within our own midst i.e., there are many Americans (politicians and academics) now working alongside these zealots internationally and domestically in order to overhaul the American engine of economic freedom, innovation, growth and prosperity in the image of common-good oriented socialism. I believe that, such persons are either misguided or ideologically opposed to private property rights and free markets if they wish to see these U.S. systems replaced.

He does not discuss recent EU actions with respect to Microsoft, Qualcomm, Apple, etc., but he provides a broadened context for understanding these.